It's been quite some time since I last wrote in this blog so I thought it was about time I rectified that with an update. A lot has happened over the last 6 months and yet nothing substantially entertaining enough to fill a blog entry on it's own so here is an abridged version of all major events before I continue with more creative topics.
I became an Aunty on The Man's side to wee Isabella and I'm really stoked about that. She's a proper cutie and remarkably seems to like me more than any other babies have before so I'm chuffed to bits.
Poor old Charlie Cat had to be put to sleep at age 19 which in fairness is not a bad innings for a cat. We miss him lots though. Soon after, Bandit Tat arrived, or as I like to call him, Evil One! Sheer devilment in a pin stripe suit. He keeps me thoroughly entertained and exasperated in equal measures with his antics and has already destroyed several household items including my unfortunate Ipad. Poor Dastan, far from getting the play mate he always wanted, has ended up with a playground bully stealing his lunch and kicking sand in his face. They do still have a soft spot for each other when it comes to nap time though.
After I had fully recovered from my bike accident, me and The Man went out for a hair raising trip up and over the Applecross road. Talk about baptism by fire! Having previously come off on a corner because of a rough patch of road/pot hole, the Man took me on the narrowest, most cambered, twistiest, turniest, steepest, gravelliest road I've ever been on... in the rain!!!! Not so much a case of getting back on the horse, as getting the horse to drag you by the ankles over some broken glass into a war zone, no exaggeration! (Well maybe just a teeny bit of an exaggeration) I was a quivering wreck by the end of it. Since then we've been out a couple more times but after coming up behind a fatal bike accident on the last trip out I've decided to hang up my helmet and, as the Man is such a super supportive sweetheart, he will too so that I don't have to fret any more.
I got divorced and I got engaged, not necessarily in that order. I started yoga again and I joined an art group so at least twice a week now I see and converse with actual human beings and they don't seem to mind.
I single handedly destroyed our kitchen and built a new one, then with a little professional assistance and some help from the ever capable Man, fitted the new one and finished the job.
I did some painting, including a commission of two dogs painted in oil which did not pass without incident but I will post a separate work-in-progress blog about that later.
I organised a 90th Birthday party for my Gran and baked a cake for her and I organised myself enough to put my Red Dress prints up for sale before Christmas.
So that's the last six months in a nutshell, more or less. Now I still have my taxes to do, boo hiss, but other than that I feel I am in a position to start being creative again. I will be starting new work to put towards an exhibition in 2014 and I have plans to get out there a bit more and stop procrastinating. I shall endeavour to keep more up to date with this blog and hopefully entertain you once again. I'm thinking next topic, 10 ways to skin a cat!
